Private Military Companies (PMCs) and defense and security contractors : exploring unfolding trends and sketching the alternative futures of the private military and security industries. We are also starting to examine the emerging conflict between PMCs/PSCs in "security partnership" with authorities and multilateral organizations and Adverse Private Forces (APFs: terrorist organizations, rebels and insurgents, mafias and organized crime, drug trafficking organizations, and maritime pirates).

Wednesday, 3 October 2007

Blackwater gets a united defense

Top State Department officials and the head of their beleaguered private security firm, Blackwater USA, put forth a unified defense Tuesday against an onslaught of congressional criticism over the company's violent encounters with Iraqis. DOS and security officials attempted to portray Blackwater's armed guards as highly trained professionals.